Alan Keyes Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Law, People

  Reception in Winder, Georgia, September 11, 2003.

• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

• We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Government

• We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

  Alan Keyes

  Law, Taught Us, America

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